Gajraj Rao praised Vinay Pathak’s performance in Rajat Kapoor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, comparing his stage brilliance to watching Sachin Tendulkar score a century.

Shakespeare’s King Lear, starring veteran Egyptian actor Yehia El-Fakharany, marked its 200th performance at Cairo’s National ...

In a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of ...

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed ...

As an old ruler is struggling with his grip on reality, his most trusted advisors and beloved children turn on him — and battle it out for ultimate power. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s William ...

Patrick Page in King Lear — Photo: DJ Corey READ THIS REVIEW IN THE MAGAZINE Given the dark nights of COVID, it’s hard not to celebrate the STC’s march back to normalcy with a thrice-extended run of ...

King Lear Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, Andrew Scott Director: Richard Eyre The Pitch: In the fictional present, the 80-year-old King Lear (Hopkins) ...

To watch Anthony Hopkins growl and squint and fume his way through this BBC/Amazon production of “King Lear” is to realize the man gets taken for granted. Yes, he’s been knighted, and won an Oscar, ...